A understated classic

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2007)

This movie has classic moments, cinematic to their core. One of those special and masterful cases where the musical score is the story, as if the screenplay was built arround the music. One of Morricone's best.
Full of magical situations made for cinema and cinema only. At times the music takes over the visuals, as to the very powerful minimalism of a face of a woman backed by exquisite and subtle piano piece, to the other extreme, of compelling and dynamic visuals which move with the music, as when the whole ship rocks in the middle of a storm, while the pianist frenetically plays a full sized tail piano rolling across the ballroom, talk about rock and roll!!! Pure magic!